Welcome to the first IIiX symposium!  
There is a growing realisation that relevant information will be accessible increasingly across media and genres, across languages and across modalities. The retrieval of such information will depend on time, place, history of interaction, task in hand, and a range of other factors that are not given explicitly but are implicit in the interaction and ambient environment, namely the context. Information Retrieval and Seeking research is now conducted in multi-media, multi-lingual, and multi-modal environments, but largely out of context.

IIiX seeks to explore how to make information systems truly interactive, by investigating seeking and authoring agents in their task environments. Contextual data can be used effectively to constrain seeking and retrieval of information and to understand ensuing information behaviours, thereby reducing the complexity of the interaction processes.

Fundamentally, advanced research designs for information interaction are important to be able to move beyond the confined laboratory IR experimental models or more simplistic information seeking perspectives, in order to capture how information, actors, information systems and knowledge sources interact. The goal of the first IIiX Symposium is to provide a broad range of perspectives on research designs and results, capable of encompassing the relevant information interaction contexts.

IIiX attempts to achieve this goal by inviting research contributions that approach information contexts from many perspectives, such as, context surrounding documents, context influencing seeking actors and tasks, interaction of information seekers or providers, the search session and its instances of implicit and explicit relevance feedback or other keys relevant to understanding usefulness and utility of information objects.

We invite YOU to join the conference by submissions and participation.